after more than a decade of growth businesses like that asus have been hit hard was the center shopping street in athens is still bustling the problems with the economy means that many businesses here in greece has simply gone and joining the euro in many european prices for many of the members with we could mean it didn't mean european wages with one botched bailout after another year of skeptics who wanted danger from the start they have become the unlikely heroes of this tale just who the hell do you think you people are you are very very dangerous people indeed your obsession with creating this euro state means that you're happy to destroy democracy you appear to be happy for millions and millions of people to be unemployed and to be poor untold millions must suffer so that your euro dream can save you if you rob people of their identity you rob them of their democracy but they are left with is nationalism and violence countries are now waking up to the

reality of the nightmare that chap says yes the euro is a political present for countries such as greece and spain and they need to be liberated from that prison recreate their own currencies have devaluation make their exports cheaper make it easier for tourists to visit their countries and they'll get back on their feet greece ireland portugal italy spain it dominates continue to topple the year and it seems there will be no happily ever after south. athens. as the eurozone debt crisis shock waves spread a ratings agencies have put the us in the firing line is well america is on the verge of reaching its fourteen point three trillion dollar debt ceiling which means obama and his republican opponents need to strike a swift deal before the government runs out of cash in theory at any rate but economics professor roderick tremblay believes the debt limit will once again go up

as it always has done in american history. the united states is not in the same position as and they are a country this is a country of currencies as you know is internationally and therefore they can afford to print more dollars than the year old can. parents like but that debt level is very high they raise the debt ceiling each year they will be raised because the president obama has a tradition of caving in to the demands of the republicans it did that he did it twice before so the republicans. expecting that he will do the same it will take the fall a few days or a few hours before the deadline of august second that could be a similar situation as that happened in one thousand nine hundred four when the representative going which closed the government for a few

a few days or if you are in the nearly two weeks this held very much to president clinton at that time to be re-elected in one thousand nine hundred six that's what president obama is hoping now that the republicans will be so extremist than they in two thousand and twelve next year he may be re-elected. and later on in the program the formula for prosperity. we look at the driving force of boosting india's economy to make it the tenth largest in the world. and another story of success this time a russian orphan who's become a golf prodigy after being adopted by american parents but here's the biggest challenge is not in the world of sports but in finding the family he left behind. rupert murdoch has apologized for the news of the world phone hacking scandal with a full page ads in seven british national newspapers the media mogul is now working with a team of top p.r. experts before

a grilling from showing pieces on tuesday amid public outrage over illegal accessing of the mobile phones of murder and terrorism victims and the dead soldiers families the crisis has already forced him to shut the one hundred sixty eight year old newspaper scuttled his bid for b. sky b. and claimed two of his top executives journalist afshin rattansi says however some are set to benefit from the meltdown at murdoch's media empire. the political class is here finally feel free to opt for the first time in decades and decades so i do think appeasing would particularly work everyone is watching for tuesday's committee where rupert murdoch and his son james will appear so it'll be interesting to see that i think we should remember that the prime minister. and we could probably not today because it's saturday said the truth is we've all been in this together the press politicians and leaders of all parties and yes that includes me very sorry indictment for democracy in this country and coming through

that i suppose one could say that it was multinationals who are using murdoch in a way so they're lobbying rupert murdoch gets the big companies big multinationals and so forth that seem to get things done by helping m.p.'s behind me perhaps not as bad as in washington but i do think the. it's the end of outside influences outside on democratic forces as regards influences on the parliamentarians behind me it is interesting that he owned these newspapers and they always say rupert murdoch loves newspapers he basically had newspapers so that he could manipulate monopoly concerns over his broadcast interests which actually did make money unlike newspapers newspapers are just a tool of war he has lots of enemies out there he probably a lot of ammunition to go back at them though thanks to all the muckraking journalists who spent their time. well looking at sex scandals really he does have lots of friends one should add but it looks at some m.p.'s have it believable

that he has the right to own any form of media in this country we're about to talk about the united states because that's where it gets really interesting the democratic party in congress is a full on party doesn't really have anything any hope left now that president obama has sort of destroyed his reputation warmongering and and his sort of reaganites economic policies as he deals with the deficit the democrats have nothing much to do but they all hate one particular influential cable channel fox news and i'm hearing that if if the nine eleven victims have been hacked by subsidiaries of news corp then fox news is finished it took it took the most curious cases of hacking referrals rather than any kind of regulator ie a body to be able to get murdoch to finally. finally overthrow him as it were is an amazing story we'll be all sure be looking forward to the hollywood blockbusters. as we've just heard the scandal in britain is now starting to spill

over to the u.s. where even bigger trouble could lie ahead for murdoch with reports that phones of victims of the nine eleven terrorist attacks were hacked as well charges could also result in the u.s. over bribing of british police by staff as corruption abroad is illegal for american based companies but as an associate you're going to reports the tabloids keep flying off the shelves. sex drugs cheating and lies phony political scandal flashing dirty laundry racy made up celebrity gossip and crime stories almost beyond human imagination. old list is served on a platter and sold for a couple of quarters by tabloids headless man in topless bar or something to kids moms in the freezer. i bought it veteran journalist michael musto is one of millions falling for the bait of catchy headlines even though he

knows the business inside out in america we don't break the law per se but they do have sleazy tactics i mean they will slants a story they probably make up sources i mean when you read them a source. of the source said well who is it many times they can just make up the quote themselves joe smith from queen said blah blah blah a lot of times i feel they're just inventing these quotes to back up the thesis of the story fascination with scandal is almost religiously observed in the u.s. and great britain we are both countries in both media environments where gossip sells and there's a tremendous interest in celebrity both countries are abuzz after rupert murdoch's news of the world newspaper phone hacking shocker broke in london his empire stretches far and wide across the u.s. as well let's not forget he owns the new york post the wall street journal and the daily at a protest outside rupert murdoch's big apple pad protesters demanded an investigation into his publications at home we know what murdoch does in england because he was

caught and we want congress to investigate what he's doing here in the united states we don't know if newspapers are backing other people in this country yet but i see no reason to put it past them so how far from potential public embarrassment do american newspapers stand but the ones that are owned by rupert murdoch without question the new york post. is one of the most hideous deceitful. tools of the criminals that there could be when it comes to getting scandal sold in the u.s. counting on the readers short attention span is a common publishing trick jennifer aniston and brad pitt have gotten together about forty two times so far this year and i haven't seen import a graph together since two thousand and six they're able to keep selling and repackaging the same story that isn't even a story no publication would admit to paying for in from a. but that's also often a technicality what a lot of mainstream news publications can get away with doing is even though they won't explicitly give someone money in exchange for an interview someone might set

up a terrible organization and then the news will happen to donate twenty thousand dollars to that charitable organization the culture of sensationalism in the press is putting the future of journalism on the line the anglo-american style is it's trashy it's ribald and there's just sort of this snickering tone that is very american and you know we're a juvenile society where young society i don't really know what the brits excuses i mean they've been around a long time but hey we blame it on them because we're their children while some will always remain fascinated by tabloids as rags continue to sell others have reached a breaking point and i don't have that great of a sense of what happens in britain but i know it's pretty bad here and there are a lot of people who are really upset about the culture news in america and just a little information so you get out in between all the gossip the press has to be vigilant and in the united states the press has fallen asleep and r.t.

new york. has a reading newspaper gossip columns has become a daily habit for millions laurie harshness to ask people in new york if the phone hacking scandal surrounding murdoch's media will make them change. how is tabloid journalism become so influential and so popular in today's world this week let's talk about that i mean people like to read about other people's business. you know. newspapers have to try to compete with the internet. with up to date you know. dirt i think it's absolute trash there's no space in this world for it at all i hope they'll go in there but they're not going under they're increasing in power i don't believe that this is going to be the biggest takedown ever rupert murdoch is going down i think it's more of a pop culture based audience and so the journalists kind of cater to that and in

turn it's kind of fun for them to be secret detectives but isn't it terrible i mean it might be fun but it's still criminal acts it's horrible i hate journalists you know whatever that whatever it takes to get the story and her whoever they want you know and do you ever do you have that attitude at your job no not at all so what makes journalists special and they're not special they're the opposite of special they have no scruples we have it in the mark to because. people. you know they like to end with you they like. to win. but that's not what journalism supposed to be what's true but never believe the media's. if they're just going to keep getting worse probably do you think journalism like that is bound to spread around the world and become as rampant as it is in britain i do unfortunately and it really isn't journalism i mean there is no logical reason that your gaar reach

the bottom line is that if the rampant popularity of tabloid journalism in the u.k. is any indication the rest of the world should be. cared for their own general to get a lot. of. emergency crews are to use a special crane boats and lifting equipment to raise the bulgarian cruise ship from the bottom of the volga river after it sunk on sunday killing one hundred twenty nine people twenty eight of them children the search operation for fifteen missing bodies continues artie's reports from the site. of the two enormous cranes behind me have begun the process of lowering two cables which will then be threaded underneath the ship and used to write it is currently leading on its left side divers will then be able to go under to check for any of the remaining fifteen bodies that are yet to be found the shores are also being searched for any of those

bodies and they'd also be able to search for the potential damage caused to sink they will eventually find that damage as the ship is ready to be raised and not have to seal the hole to let all the water in and any other holes and then all the water inside the bulgarian will be able to be pumped out making it's light enough to be raised the divers though i've got a difficult task ahead of them with me is. he's from the emergencies ministry under a could you just tell us a bit about the conditions that the divers are working in. divers are currently working on the river bed but it's really difficult because of crew visibility basically you can't see anything even if it's right in front of you that's why the divers are preparing to lift the ship up there barely able to see what they're doing obviously this operation now everyone is waiting especially the

relatives on the banks people who have yet to hear from those fifteen will be desperate for news of what has happened to their loved ones and increasingly investigators want to know what caused this ship to sink and sinks. causing so much tragedy. now let's turn to some other international news and brief we're covering today the syrian opposition members have been holding meetings in damascus and to discuss ways of saying president assad this comes after a massive nationwide protest that rocked of the country on friday leaving at least thirty two people dead hundreds of thousands of anti-government demonstrators poured onto the streets of the capital and other cities before facing a crackdown by security forces the government has launched a national dialogue but protesters are demanding president assad step down. venezuelan leader hugo chavez has transferred part of his presidential power to the vice president and the minister for finance as he travels to cuba for a new round of cancer treatment he's been given the unanimous approval from the

national assembly for the trip even from the opposition chavez is a battle with cancer has raised doubts over his fitness to lead the country but he insists he still plans to run for reelection next year. despite warnings from china u.s. president barack obama has held a private meeting with the exiled tibetan spiritual leader the dalai lama the chinese government earlier called on the united states to cancel the talks saying it would damage relations between the countries the leaders were expected to discuss the dalai lama's hopes for tibet to be semi-autonomous china has accused him of pushing for full tibetan independence. india has recently become one of the top ten largest economies in the world a key driving force is the willingness of indians to work long hours for low pay out doing their western counterparts reno reports. it's a busy city with busy people india is a rising economic locomotive still what's the driving force behind it success it

could very well be that people like. both are co-directors of a small one import company called divine and is indians have developed a strong liking for french and spanish mintages young men are working overtime to fill their glasses you have to be very flexible with your working hours. engineers who are going to globalization and because of all you know you're interacting with so many people from abroad especially america or you know europe so. we can't be fixed by means where we can say we're only going to work from nine to five but people in britain for example can and do say that seven spent years working as a business consultant in the u.k. and he says brits watch that clock closely in britain people who leave a five o'clock they want state i said because i got a train to catch i mean for many years in britain and yet there is that so people don't work in britain people don't work weekends it's changing

a little bit now particularly in periods of economic recession. but generally it's a monday to friday as recently as just two years ago india had a six day long week the government has put in stricter regulations regarding labor hours but that doesn't stop people from spending more time in the office than needed to save them a significant difference between the kind of work culture in india and in britain is the pressure of people around to work above and beyond the contracted hours. everyone will do this irrespective of really. if there's work to be done if there is a small enterprise to run then all state regulations go out of the window if sacrifices equal success then you have to make them i wouldn't twenty four seven. working i work on sunday or saturday i'm an office working because the order would be

processed that distinguisher being organized so as for the person. it is nonexistent but what may seem a fine example of dedication may actually be a drawback in the office environment i think people are expected to do the job for two or three people. even though the contract to those might say one thing which isn't always such a good thing because if you work such long hours it's going to affect your performance while europe and the us spend their money on fighting wars and their time on trying to figure out a way to get out of economic slump india is busy getting things done the indian way or garnish is probably the most popular god in the entire hindu pantheon in india he is supposed to bring prosperity and success to those who worship him but the success of indian businessmen should not be attributed to the divine help alone nine to five working hours just don't cut it here in the long hours of hard labor but at the end all of that hard work pays off in. new delhi. and for more exciting

stories and videos check out our team. here's some of what you'll find on our website. ukrainian man goes truly wild of planning to spend over a month living with a family of lions while blogging about his experience. also online and more than half a ton of radioactive blueberries have been found in moscow stores find out more on that story and similar cases that are to dot com. and young russian boy it's become a golf prodigy after being adopted by american parents but the biggest challenge for nikolai lies not in the world of sports but in his quest to find his birth family what he has the story. he might have a smooth as swing but from the outside nicholai looks no different to the pampered junior players in this hyper exclusive moscow golf club but this couldn't be further from the truth nikolai come alaska was an eleven year old all for when he

was adopted by an american family you can never say that orphan his life is easy you know and basically there they make you feel like it's nothing you're nothing to me when i came to united states i had a lot of problems emotion that he's an incredible young man he is someone who has taken on many challenges in his life and he's always overcome then came the gulf one day i just saw my desk going in a golf club in the backyard and. i don't remember exactly but i had no idea what it was i just was a piece of metal and i asked him what it was and he told me it was god and then he asked me to he said you want to do want to try and i tried it and i had it's fake. and he said you're playing. despite making headway in sport was one thing nicholai could not get over when he moved to the united states nikolai was separated from his younger sister and brother and lost track of them he rejected several sports

scholarship offers at top u.s. colleges to play for the russian national golf team so he could search for his siblings. then this year during a top junior tournament heard news about his sister my whole life. my dad and we have paid a lot of money to different companies to try to find her and then i met family out of nowhere and they found there in less than two weeks so to me i never thought that i was ever going to see her again reunited at last nicholai sister honest a seer was never adopted she's about to graduate from a school in southern russia. when they heard about my brother and i thought it was a prank my friend played on me i don't remember much of him but i'm going to become close again just as there was no i'm going to buy her a computer so that we can talk to each other all the time so that we never lose touch again but when you put it earlier back in moscow nicholai has won the

prestigious file though series tournament and will compete against europe stop young players later this year but he says now his priority is finding his brother were can only wish nicholai the best in his dream to become a professional golfer but what he's had to overcome whatever happens next he is already a winner either overawed now. moscow. and we'll explore the dangers of the world's growing nuclear arsenals or shortly after a fresh look at the headlines coming up in just a bit. we'll

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say don't need to go. read this and the colonel was hoto retreat. and broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is r.t. i'm sean thomas let's take a look at your top headlines the debt crisis rages on both sides of the atlantic as european banks fail stress tests for their vulnerability to financial troubles. a fourteen point three trillion dollar debt ceiling. has made a public apology for phone hacking by the news of the world he's rapidly losing allies on both sides of the atlantic with his media empire trying to stop itself from self-destruct. work is underway to lift a russian cruiser from the bottom of the volga river. sank with the loss of around one hundred thirty la. my colleague here in about thirty minutes

time with a full look at your news but up next watch the second part of our special report about anti-nuclear activists who are trying to open the world's eyes to the dangers of atomic disaster. the fall out from the french tests went beyond the polynesian islands they caused outrage in new zealand which took the lead in the anti-nuclear movement and became a black sheep among western countries yes unlike any other country new zealand refused to rely on nuclear weapons for its security but here nuclear technology is banned it's the law. i think a lot of the young people feel proud about new zealand especially for a policy that people have come of complacent and feel as foreign we're safe there are these other issues here i mean a lot of people say people in the peace movement has had peace and older members graveyards resounds and that's what people say. even in new zealand it's difficult

to find young people concerned about this issue they are more sensitive to the melting of the antarctic and he wants to revitalize the ageing pacifist movement when i'm working at peace foundation and my role is to use outreach coordinator. and race and they are going to tell you see to the pacific you fist of all and basing all these amazing people from twenty seven different countries in the pacific and i felt for the first time in my life that new zealand was not remote and that we were big compared to. some of the things that go with such a god and country. i was brought up on a higher the peace activist mother she's been around during peace activist the last thirty years so it's on my blog and i feel a responsibility to continue that when. i have this.